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473 Articles match "Information","Research"
The Latest from the Nonprofit Technology Community
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
This was unprecedented level of giving through this channel and might mark the tipping point for greater adoption.
We teamed with Edge Research and Sea Change Strategies on a national survey of US charitable donors conducted one week after the earthquake in Haiti, and during intense fundraising efforts for emergency relief – this is part of a broader study that will be released in the coming days on the contrasting charitable habits of Gen Y, Gen X, Baby Boomers and Matures to provide the nonprofit sector with insights on cultivating the next generation of American donors.(This
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
During the redesign process, Safe Kids worked with Convio to conduct significant user research to ensure the new site would meet the needs of their various audiences. The previous website did not offer any cues or entry points for each audience group, but the new site provides tabs for each one, which allows Safe Kids to consolidate relevant information in an audience-specific way.
All-in-all, the new website Author: Lacey Kruger
Yesterday, Safe Kids Worldwide launched a brand new website.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Hop over to Social Edge for a clear and comprehensive post (kudos to Marketing Director Jill Finlayson) that covers just about everything you'd want to know about using and contributing to these tools: How it works and why it's a win: * For emerging social entrepreneurs * For vetted social entrepreneurs included in the database * For funders (award and fellowship programs) * For journalists and other writers * For researchers, corporations, emergency response teams How to make it better: * Adopt it * Expand it * Innovate with it * Include it in tools drawing from multiple open datasets * Fund
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Photo by Monster Today is Information Overload Awareness Day . call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it
impacts Take my information overload quiz . Then pick one idea to reduce information overload in your life from this list. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI
The purpose is
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
On the Internet, our challenge is not simply to find information, but to sift out the truly useful and reliable information needed to complete a task or accomplish a goal. Three new specialized search tools are available (or will be soon) to help save your organization time in tracking down public records, demographic data, research and statistics....( Tags: General News Non-profit technology read more )
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Card sorting is a common technique used to gather input from representative audiences about how they think about your information. For example, some labeled by type of content (“Research” or “Webinars”). Next, we’ll create a revised information architecture for the NTEN website. We’re excited to be working with the Nonprofit Technology Network to re-architect their website, NTEN.org . As each stage of the project is completed, we’ll share a behind-the-scenes recap about the process.
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Here's an interesting tidbit published in Science Daily --researchers analyzed 91 studies that included over 8,000 people and found that most of the time we seek information that supports our viewpoints and then screen out everything else: The researchers found that people are about twice as likely to
select select information that supports their own point of view (67 percent)
as as to consider an opposing idea (33 percent).
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics.
Understand how information overload might be effecting you and take a break to assess and rethink
Be a digital curator with your electronic information, not a packrat
Don't Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations.
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Armed with this information, smart nonprofit marketers will realize that we cannot afford to be gender blind in our outreach efforts. Tags: Marketing Researc Yesterday I made the case that women, not men, have become the most vital market segment to reach, not only for consumer brands but for nonprofit organizations seeking to change the world. I
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Photo by Breakmould
Steve Rubel has a post pointing to an " Information Overload Calculator " from the research firm Basex that is estimating that information overload costs the U.S. searching for information. Rubel has been predicting and writing about the " Attention Crash ." Given the competing demands for our attention is so intense and amplified economy $900
billion billion per year in "lowered employee productivity and reduced
innovation."
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Google Reader gets a good mention in my RSS article, Using RSS Tools to Feed your Information Needs , but deserves an even deeper dive. We've established that an RSS Reader helps you manage internet information far more efficiently than a web browser can; and we've talked in the last few posts about publishing feeds to your web site. This post focuses on using tools like Google Reader to share research . This is a follow-up to that article, along with my recent posts on Integrating content with websites , and Managing Content with Pipes . Out of the box, GReader (as
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
My presentation includes some brief highlights from research done in the US and the UK around social media use by nonprofit organizations (including the Nonprofit Social Networking Survey and the eCampaigning Report ). I also use a story of a friend and colleague, Leah Williams , to help highlight the role individuals play in moving and informing the social media strategy and practice of their organizations (her story of discovering social media tools on her own and applying her knowledge and experiences to social media application for the Women’s Resource Center ).
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
quot;It's always on, always with you and provides personal access to information."
quot;By being almost always with you, anytime you had a question or concern or surprise, the device was available for capturing those concerns," said Professor Elizabeth Mynatt, director of the GVU Center of the Georgia Institute of Technology , which does technology research. The researchers found that the data gathered with mobile phones was more accurate than the data recalled during a weekly clinic Corinne Ramey, MobileActive.org
Although Although nonprofits in the United States
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